![]() ![]() ![]() After leaving the bench, Amestoy has taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Vermont, which held that the state’s denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples violated the Vermont Constitution, an opinion that paved the way for the state’s civil unions law. In 1999, Amestoy wrote the three-judge majority opinion of the Vermont Supreme Court in Baker v. While Dana is probably remembered more for Two Years Before the Mast, a new biography of Dana, The Slavish Shore by Jeffrey Amestoy, argues that Dana’s contributions to American law and society have been overlooked.Īmestoy, who lives in Waterbury, served as Vermont’s attorney general from 1985 to 1997, and as Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court from 1997 to 2004, when he retired. He was also considered one of the most brilliant legal advocates of his day, as he took on the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the question of whether the Union could legally blockade Southern ports during the Civil War, and prepared for the trial of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, for treason after the end of the Civil War. ![]() He was just 25 when his f irst book, Two Years Before the Mast, a classic account of going to sea, was published in 1840 by Harper and Brothers, vaulting him to literary fame. In the mid-19th century Richard Henry Dana Jr., was one of the most famous men in America. ![]()
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